You're likely to be sacrificing a whole butt-ton of creatures. I advise ways to exploit your guys dying:
Dictate of Erebos
or
Grave Pact
come readily to mind.
Skullclamp
is pretty busted if you're going to be sacrificing creatures anyways, and its especially good seeing as you're running
Gravecrawler
already.

One common issue I've seen in a lot of EDH decks is the prevalence of 1-for-1 instant and sorceries. In a majority of EDH games, you're going to have 2-3 opponents, rather than just one; this means you are facing roughly 2-3 times as many cards as you yourself have access to. Cards like
Dreadbore
and
Terminate
are good in 1-on-1 formats like Modern, but in EDH I have frequently found them to just not be good enough. I advise you run cards like
Fire Covenant
,
Ashes to Ashes
,
Volcanic Fallout
or
Toxic Deluge
instead. These have the potential to take out several creatures at the cost of one card, leaving you up that many cards over your opponents.

On a related note, since most games of EDH are decided by card advantage, anything you can do to draw cards will always be welcome.
Ambition's Cost
,
Night's Whisper
and the like are good ways to refill your hand.
Wheel of Fortune
is another good card, but it's about $100 now, so... consider carefully.
Light Up the Stage
is another one to consider. While Rakdos is good at topdecking, managing to draw extra cards means it is more likely to hit.

Looting effects tend to be very good in zombie decks, which have access to graveyard recursion.
Faithless Looting
is essentially card advantage in your deck, because you can discard things like
Gravecrawler
at no cost. Similarly, I advise running a bigger reanimation package (supplementing your
Animate Dead
) to get back fatties your opponents may have killed or you may have discarded.
Reanimate
, and
Necromancy
are good cards -- if you want to get spicy,
Dance of the Dead
is a card most people have never played against before, mostly because it isn't nearly as good as the other three. But I figured I'd mention it. Also, a bigger reanimation package means things like
Entomb
or
Buried Alive
become exponentially better.

If you have a lot of recursion, which I see you do in things like
Phyrexian Reclamation
, you may have luck with pox-style cards.
Pox
is one of the most brutal cards to resolve in EDH, and
Smallpox
and
Innocent Blood
also can be played to great effect. Note that these get around hexproof, shroud and indestructible.

1 month ago

I've crunched the numbers and currently your mana cost for the entire build is 72 - the minimum mana cost for using naus is like 52(?) I believe. So the likelihood of you having enough mana's worth in hand to reliably cast naus as a simpler method is just not going to work.

Skeletal scrying for 30-odd would find you a decent chunk of what you're looking for, even giving you the chance to pitch
Phantasmagorian
without unmask.

1 year ago

1 year ago

I could be wrong, but I feel like none of those wincons are as good as the ones available for Blue decks or Jund. You also don't have the counterspells to force your wincons through, meaning you'll have trouble beating those Blue decks; Hand Disruption can't stop them from drawing into interaction, after all.

I'm sure you can win with Vent, but realistically how often does it happen? Again, I don't really know for sure, but I'd bet that it doesn't happen often.

Yes, Gideon is good against control decks, but he won't always resolve, and Frontier has many answers for him; Vraska's Contempt being the main one, but Cast Out and other cards see play as well.

Blighted Fen stops the creature, sometimes. Jund can still have other dudes lying around to sacrifice, off an Ishkanah or something. Even then, it doesn't stop the Mindslaver trigger. If it comes in off a Marvel, there's no guarantee that you survive for long enough for Fen to work.

I'm not saying the manabase is bad, I just think it isn't as strong as UBx decks.

The deck can definitely take pain, but how much pain can it realistically take? Atarka can put a lot of pressure on quickly, and get kills out of nowhere.

I would be interested to know what the metagame you play in is like if you see a lot of Siege Rhino decks.

Blighted Fen occurrence in decks from the last year

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.01%

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